METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE STATE OF A DEVICE IN AN AIRCRAFT
First Claim
1. A method for determining a state of a device of interest in an aircraft, this state specifying a version of the device of interest present in the aircraft, the method comprising:
- transmitting, by one or more computers, and to at least one database, a request formed from an identifier of the aircraft;
receiving, by the one or more computers and in response to the transmitting, a list of updates previously performed on the device of interest, each update specifying an earlier version of the device of interest before the update and a later version of the device of interest after the update;
from a directed graph, stored in a memory, and such that each edge of a plurality of edges of the directed graph corresponds to one update out of a set of updates associated with devices of a type of the device of interest, determining, by the one or more computers, a sub-graph of the directed graph corresponding to the list of updates;
determining, by the one or more computers, the state of the device of interest from the sub-graph; and
causing, by the one or more computers, the state of the device of interest to be displayed on a display device.
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Abstract
A method and a system for determining the state of a device in an aircraft, this state being specified by a current version of the device as implemented in the aircraft. The method according to the invention comprises: transmitting a request to a database and receiving in response a list of updates previously performed on the device, each update specifying an earlier version and a later version; and from a directed graph, such that each edge corresponds to an update of a set of updates associated with devices of the type of the device of interest, determining a sub-graph corresponding to the list.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for determining a state of a device of interest in an aircraft, this state specifying a version of the device of interest present in the aircraft, the method comprising:
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transmitting, by one or more computers, and to at least one database, a request formed from an identifier of the aircraft; receiving, by the one or more computers and in response to the transmitting, a list of updates previously performed on the device of interest, each update specifying an earlier version of the device of interest before the update and a later version of the device of interest after the update; from a directed graph, stored in a memory, and such that each edge of a plurality of edges of the directed graph corresponds to one update out of a set of updates associated with devices of a type of the device of interest, determining, by the one or more computers, a sub-graph of the directed graph corresponding to the list of updates; determining, by the one or more computers, the state of the device of interest from the sub-graph; and causing, by the one or more computers, the state of the device of interest to be displayed on a display device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A system comprising:
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at least one database, storing, for each aircraft of a plurality of aircrafts, a list of updates previously performed on a device of interest; one or more processors; a memory storing a directed graph and instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising; transmitting, to the database, a request formed from an identifier of an aircraft; receiving, in response to the transmitting, a list of updates previously performed on the device of interest, each update specifying an earlier version of the device of interest before the update and a later version of the device of interest after the update; from the directed graph, wherein the directed graph is constructed such that each edge of a plurality of edges of the directed graph corresponds to one update out of a set of updates associated with devices of a type of the device of interest, determining a sub-graph of the directed graph corresponding to the list of updates; determining the state of the device of interest from the sub-graph; and causing the state of the device of interest to be displayed on a display device. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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